On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, Mattia Dongili wrote: > [Cc-ing upstream author to discuss that feature request (and quoting the > full mail to give him the rationale behind the request :) )] > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 10:38:59PM +0100, Isaac Wilcox wrote: > > Package: xfree86-driver-synaptics > > Version: 0.14.3-1 > > Severity: normal > > > > Hi there, > > > > Firstly, thanks for a very handy driver - it's let me use my touchpad in > > exactly the way I want for many moons :) > > > > Unfortunately, version 0.14.3 introduced a change that broke my setup. > > My settings are: > > > > Option "TouchpadOff" "2" > > Option "CircularScrolling" "on" > > Option "VertScrollDelta" "30" > > > > Reasoning: My ThinkPad has both a stick mouse and a Synaptics touchpad. > > I find the touchpad impossible to use as a mouse (just my personal > > preference) and hit it a lot when typing, whereas I can use the ThinkPad > > stick mouse very easily. But because there's no physical scroll wheel > > built into my ThinkPad, the only way I can scroll is to use the > > VertScroll and CircularScrolling of the touchpad. I set up the regions > > of my touchpad so that it's very unlikely that an accidental brush will > > be interpreted as mouse movement (which has worked flawlessly so far). > > To prevent accidental taps from being interpreted as button presses, I > > also set TouchpadOff to 2. So, in my setup, the touchpad basically acts > > *only* as an intelligent scroll wheel only, and this worked great for > > me... > > > > ...until version 0.14.3 came out, whose changelog states: > > - Also disable scrolling when the TouchpadOff parameter is set to 2. > > It doesn't make any sense to disable tapping but not scrolling as a > > response to keyboard activity. > > > > This change breaks my setup because I can't use the touchpad to scroll > > while disabling tapping.
What about these settings? * MaxSpeed=0 to disable mouse movements regardless of keyboard activity. * TapButton1=0 to disable tapping. * [LR][TB]CornerButton=0 to disable corner tapping. It appears to me that those settings would make the driver do what you want without using syndaemon at all. Or did I miss anything? -- Peter Osterlund - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.telia.com/~u89404340 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
